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Browse our extensive collection of tech articles for DIY tips on everything you need to know to work on your project car. We’ve got you covered from setting up your first workshop, to mechanical upgrades, car care and much more!
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AdviceCar Airbags: how they work and why they’re important
While airbags are proven to prevent serious injuries and save lives, they can also be pretty dangerous, so it’s important to know how they operate
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AdviceDo I pay rego during lockdown? Answering your COVID car questions
Advice to keep your car in good shape during lockdown and to save money if you can’t drive
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AdviceDriving on snow and ice safely
Here’s how to stay safe off-road when winter adds snow and ice to the mud and grit
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AdviceHow to react around emergency vehicles
What should you do when you hear a siren or see flashing lights in your rear view mirror?
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AdviceCar maintenance tasks you can do yourself
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AdviceHow often should you service your car?
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Advice12 must-haves for peaceful family road trips
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AdviceElectric power steering: the pros and cons
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Bodywork
2016 Detroit Motor Show: Ford to enter the service industry
Dearborn announces ‘FordPass’ as a customer service free-for-all, and you don’t even need to be a Ford owner to benefit
2016 Detroit Motor Show: 2017 Volkswagen Tiguan GTE revealed
The reveal of Volkswagen’s latest plug-in hybrid based on the Tiguan SUV is overshadowed by an upcoming Dieselgate meeting with the US environmental watchdog
2016 Detroit Motor Show: Infiniti Q60 revealed
All-new Infiniti Q60 coupe gets a powerful new engine to go with its head-turning body
2016 Detroit Motor Show: No Holden Bolt EV
Chevrolet’s ambition to become “a global brand” does not include selling electric vehicles such as the Bolt EV in Australia
2016 Lotus Exige S Roadster review
Now you can get the supercharged, track-focused Lotus Exige S as a ragtop. Has it lost its razor edge?
When Porsche drove its 956 racers on Australian roads
You drive your track car to the circuit? That’s cute
2016 Detroit Motor Show: Mercedes-Benz E-Class revealed
The 2016 Mercedes E-Class has been revealed as the maker’s new technology flagship
2016 Detroit Motor Show: Is the Buick Avista the next Holden Monaro?
Buick Avista teases a muscular rear-drive two-door sports coupe that could shape the future of Holden performance
Top 10 Tuning Disasters
Sometimes things are just better left alone
Inside Toyota Motorsport
MOTOR explores Toyota’s German motorsport HQ and finds a stash of racing gems
Detroit Motor Show: Buick Avista revealed
Stylish 2+2 performance coupe a contender to replace Commodore
Wheels Car of the Year 2016: People’s Choice – Group 2
What’s your Car of the Year? Have your say in the second of five polls
2015 Mini Cooper JCW First Drive Review
Our first local drive of Mini’s performance flagship finds a rewarding hot hatch with speed and class to burn.
2016 Subaru Forester tS review
Subaru is about to bring us a new flagship Forester, adding an STi-tuned chassis to the turbo XT. It shows promise…
2015 Toyota RAV4 Review
The Toyota RAV4 is a deservedly popular mid-sized SUV. Strengths include low-cost servicing and great front seats. This review covers RAV4s prior to the December 2015 facelift.
Wheels Car of the Year 2016: People’s Choice – Group 1
What’s your Car of the Year? Have your say in the first of five polls
Top 5 Affordable Track Stars
The best circuit performers under $30K
Hyundai’s ‘Veloster Raptor’
We flogged an ‘experimental’ Megane RS-chasing Veloster Turbo and interrogated the Aussie engineers heating up Hyundai’s hatch
Wheels Car of the Year 2016: The selection process
How the COTY nominees are chosen
Geek Speak: Flat-plane crankshafts
What they are, who does ’em, and why they’re good
2015 Holden Astra VXR First Drive Review
Hot hatch reload with a Holden badge. Quick, sharp dynamically, and aggressively priced, the VXR is a primo hot hatch option.
Aussies snapping up sports and premium cars in 2015
Premium car makers in high demand as Aussies buy up big
2016 Peugeot 308 GTi 270 review
Peugeot is about to drop a small but powerful explosive device into the hot-hatch market with its new 308 GTi 270. Stand well back
2016 Volkswagen T6 Transporter review
Volkswagen has smartened up its genre-creating Transporter range, with better diesels and updated cabins
